[OT] perl and CLRs

[Nicholas Clark]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:18:53AM +0100, Peter Hickman wrote:
> Dirk Koopman wrote:

> >Precisely the sort of attitude that worries me. Perl is *soooooooo* 
> >much better than everything else (which may well be true) so that is 
> >all there is to said. That's all right then.
> 
> Please keep your mindless bigotry to yourself. Just because I don't 
> think that .NET is anything special does not mean that I have that "sort 
> of attitude".
> 
> Fuck off.

You thoroughly failed to read the next 2 paragraphs that made it clear what
Dirk really feels. You may wish to do as you would be done by for a while.

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:07:26AM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:

> Precisely the sort of attitude that worries me. Perl is *soooooooo* much 
> better than everything else (which may well be true) so that is all 
> there is to said. That's all right then.
> 
> Problem is: we are leaking developers like a sieve, nothing like the 
> number of new users are coming in the perl fold than formerly (and the 
> number drops every year) and the perception that perl is a dead-end (or 
> plain dead) grows out there in the hive mind, at the same or greater rate.
> 
> We all know that Web 2.0 is erm... er... well we know what it is, but 
> having said that, where are the CPAN modules for the underlying useful 
> stuff, eg the "rails" bits?


Nicholas Clark